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This is our time.\n\xa0\nWith the changing of the calendar year it\u2019s common for us to take the time to look back on the previous solar orbit, or look forward to our future.\xa0 This is a great exercise, to look forward without dwelling on the past: as we make our way through this adventure called life.\xa0 \xa0But, it think it\u2019s even more important to consider our present\u2026.the now that we are existing in\u2026today, right now.\n\xa0\nThis is our time.\xa0 The who, that we are has grown and become in such a way that we can experience the Universe around us\u2026.we are, in effect: a way for the Universe to know itself; and I know that sounds deep\u2026but it isn\u2019t.\n\xa0\nConsider that we, as human beings, are made of flesh and blood whose elemental construction has it\u2019s origins in an enormous universal expansion that began 13.7 billion years ago\u2026we are made of star dust\u2026ever replenishing cells made of carbon atoms, hydrogen and oxygen that have through biology formed into the creatures we are today.\n\xa0\nTrillions upon Trillions of inanimate objects and animate lifeforms have existed before us, and ga-zillions of intelligently aware creatures will exists when we are gone; and time will move onward towards an inevitable state of inaction where the universe and all the matter that it ever created will come to a stop: and space will enlarge to a point where time has no meaning, and there will be no way for the universe to experience anything: it\u2019s a depressing thought, this asymptotic heat death of everything that has ever been: when the universe reaches a temperature of absolute zero.\n\xa0\nSo, this is our time: it\u2019s a reason to celebrate.\xa0 We are here, today: with a purpose to make the world just a little bit better than it was before we got here.\xa0 It\u2019s a pretty good purpose, and yes: while the far imagined future may lay waste to all we\u2019ve done and accomplished physically: there is more to life and purpose than that we can touch and see, feel taste and smell.\xa0 I\u2019m not here to provide spoilers for the significance and importance of the purpose that even the eventual heat death of the universe can\u2019t destroy: but I\u2019ll ask you to think about that\u2026think about your now, and how in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years from right now you might look back and wax nostalgically about the things you\u2019ll do today.\n\xa0\nThis is our time to live, to experience and to perform random acts of kindness as a way to make the world just a little\u2026teenie\u2026tiny bit better than it was before we got here.\n\xa0\nThere\u2019s an old Irish blessing and toast that I\u2019ll leave you with, with sincere hope that we\u2019ve left 2010 behind us, that we\u2019ll have a wonderful 2011 and that we can all appreciate the gift of the present.\n\xa0\n\u201cMay your troubles be less, \nAnd your blessings be more. \nAnd nothing but happiness \ncome through your door. \u201c\n\xa0\n\nLINKS:\n\xa0\nAlde Land Syne by \xa0J.E.L.L.i \xa0at\xa0 http://www.jellimusic.com and by Mario Ajero at http://marioajero.blogspot.com